Take it up with the one who wants gays to marry.
Sandy01 said that not letting them marry is oppressing gays.
Following that to its logical end, you would have to allow people to marry their pets or multipple eives and husbands.
Following your previous example of consenting adults, you’d have to allow for bigamy and polygamy.
Whatever...you simply have too hard of a heart to see the broken part of humanity that are the gays. I am broken, albiet in different ways than gays are. The alcoholic is broken, the liar is broken, the coveter is broken, the idolator is broken......we all are broken. But, only gays are singled out and punished. I just don’t see that helping them ever come to Christ. I think we are repelling lost souls by fighting against them. Jesus treated lepers as equals, prostitutes as equal, tax cheats as equals. That is how he won so many. I’m just saying.......
I have no problem with bigamy, either. If you’re dumb enough not to have learned your lesson from marrying your first wife, and go ahead and marry a second or third, then you deserve that living hell.
It’s not my business.
Control the borders, keep the courts, post office and highways in proper working order, mint the money, float a navy, and kick enemy ass from time to time - I don’t need the government to do much more than that.